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 Verbena Lamberti. Lambert's Vervain. 



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 Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. limbus subbilabiatus., 5-lobus, inasqualis. Stam. in- 

 clusa. Utriculus evanidus. Sem. 2 — 4. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Verbena Lamberti; tetrandra, spicis laxis solitariis, caule 

 hispido decumbente radicante, foliis oblongis inciso- 

 dentatis apice integerrimis. 



Verbena Aubletia. Bot. Reg. 294. 



Verbena bracteosa. Pursh, non vero Michaux. 



In the 8th volume of this work, No. 308, there is a figure 

 of Verbena Aubletia; from which we do not scruple to con- 

 sider this as a distinct species; for although it is not very 

 easy, perhaps, to find very good diagnostic characters, yet 

 whoever has carefully compared the two plants cannot hesi- 

 tate to pronounce to which he should refer any, even small 

 specimen, that may be offered to him. The stem of Aubletia 

 is almost constantly erect, and shows no disposition to creep; 

 of Lamberti decumbent, and throws out roots wherever it 

 touches the ground; the leaves of the former in length 

 seldom greatly exceed their breadth: of the latter they are 

 frequently three times longer than broad, and the point of the 

 Ieat has no incision for some way down. Our plant is also 

 much more hairy, and its spikes of flowers are usually much 

 longer, and very sweet scented, which those of Aubletia, we 

 believe, are not. 



Mr. Lambert, to whom we are indebted for the living 

 specimen from which our drawing was taken, informs us 

 that a whole border of this plant in the open ground in his 



garden 



